# գերանդի
## Armenian
### Alternative forms

* գՙէրընդի (gʻērəndi) — Alashkert, Akhaltsikhe, Erzurum, Mush
* գէրա՛նդի (gērándi) — Ararat
* կ$^յ$էրընդի (k$^y$ērəndi) — Salmas, Van
* կէրա̈նդո̈ւ՛ (kērändǘ) — Karabakh
* գՙ$^յ$էրընդէ (gʻ$^y$ērəndē) — Vozm
* կ$^յ$էրընդը՛ (k$^y$ērəndə́) — Moks
* քէրէնդի (kʻērēndi) — Hamshen

### Etymology

From Old Armenian գերանդի (gerandi).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /ɡeɾɑnˈdi/, [ɡeɾɑndí]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /keɾɑnˈti/, [kʰeɾɑntʰí]
* Hyphenation: գե‧րան‧դի

### Noun

գերանդի • (gerandi)
* scythe

#### Derived terms

* գերանդավոր (gerandavor)
* գերանդվաքաղ (gerandvakʻaġ)
* գերանդկոթ (gerandkotʻ)

### References

* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գերանդի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 540b

## Old Armenian
### Etymology

The origin is uncertain.
Pictet compared to Sanskrit करण्ड (karaṇḍa, “sword”), whose origin is uncertain.
Often supposed to contain գերան (geran, “log, beam”).

### Noun

գերանդի • (gerandi)
* scythe
* sickle

#### Declension

a plural instrumental գերանդիւք (gerandiwkʻ) is attested, which probably is a contracted form of գերանդեաւք (gerandeawkʻ)

#### Derived terms

* գերանդաբեր (gerandaber)
* գերանդազէն (gerandazēn)

#### Descendants

* Armenian: գերանդի (gerandi)
** → Azerbaijani: kərənti
** → Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: kêrendî, kêlendî, kêlendû
    Central Kurdish: کەرەنتوو (kerentû)
** → Laz: ქერენდი (kerendi)
** → Turkish: kerindi, gerenti, kerendi, kerimti, kerinti, kerenti, kirinti, kerantı
** → Zazaki: kelendî

### References

* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գերանդի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 540b
* ↑ Pictet, Adolphe (1863) Les origines indo-européennes, ou Les Aryas primitifs: essai de paléontologie linguistique, volume II, Paris: J. Cherbuliez, page 220
* ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 61
* ↑ Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “գերանդի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 545b
* ↑ Petersson, Herbert (1916) “Beiträge zur armenischen Wortkunde”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 47, number 3/4, page 290 of 240–291
* ↑ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 208–209
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “գերանդի”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 157a

### Further reading

* Асатрян, Г. (1987) “Язык заза и армянский (Предварительные заметки) [Zaza and Armenian (Preliminary Notes)]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Russian), number 1, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 164
* Bläsing, Uwe (1995) Armenisch-Türkisch. Etymologische Betrachtungen ausgehend von Materialien aus dem Hemşingebiet (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 4) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 76
* Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 35
* Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 439
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գերանդի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy